Slate contributor Ruth Graham discusses the proliferation of Christian podcasts. “Whatever your theology, your denomination, your interests, or your appetite for cursing, there’s a Christian podcast for you,” Graham writes. Podcasts can be a way for Christians to receive a wider variety of teaching than they would from their local pastor—but it can also be an “out” for attending actual church. Trevin Wax, who wrote a blog post called “Your Podcast Is Not Your Pastor,” recently wrote in an email, “Thinking a podcast can substitute for a worship gathering means we’ve adopted an overly cognitive approach to church—as if the sole purpose of worship is to download the information in a pastor’s sermon into my brain.”